TRAP: using TaRgeted Ads to unveil Google personal Profiles — mentioned by paimapi

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:26:31 GMT

I'm not sure why you're going so hard in the paint to be pedantic but sure, Google doesn't literally sell their exact byte-for-byte data, what they sell is a service that is functionally a few translation layers removed from their actual database. This is pretty much how all advertising SaaS works. When I wrote my comment, I was writing to an audience that I assumed was well aware of this given that most of us work in tech. You can use that service to get enough context clues about certain targets to identify someone [0] [1]. Will most advertisers do this? Not five years ago but it's…

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TRAP: using TaRgeted Ads to unveil Google personal Profiles — mentioned by paimapi